The VESA Digital Flat Panel (DFP) interface standard specifies a video connector and signaling for
flat-panel display
A flat-panel display (FPD) is an electronic display used to display visual content such as text or images. It is present in consumer, medical, transportation, and industrial equipment.
Flat-panel displays are thin, lightweight, provide better l ...
s. It features 20 pins and uses the
PanelLink
Transition-minimized differential signaling (TMDS), a technology for transmitting high-speed serial data, is used by the DVI and HDMI video interfaces, as well as by other digital communication interfaces.
The transmitter incorporates an advan ...
protocol.
Unlike
Digital Visual Interface
Digital Visual Interface (DVI) is a video display interface developed by the Digital Display Working Group (DDWG). The digital interface is used to connect a video source, such as a video display controller, to a display device, such as a com ...
(DVI), DFP never achieved widespread implementation. The connector was used by displays such as the
Compaq Presario
Presario is a discontinued line of consumer desktop computers and notebooks originally produced by Compaq. The Presario family of computers was introduced in September 1993.
In the mid-1990s, Compaq began manufacturing PC monitors as part of the ...
FP400, FP500, FP700, Fp720, 5204, and 5280. It was offered on
graphics cards
A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or mistakenly GPU) is an expansion card which generates a feed of output images to a display device, such as a computer moni ...
such as the Xpert LCD, and
Rage LT Pro by
ATI Technologies
ATI Technologies Inc. (commonly called ATI) was a Canadian semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, that specialized in the development of graphics processing units and chipsets. Founded in 1985 as Array Technology Inc., ...
, and the Oxygen GVX1
by
3Dlabs
3Dlabs was a fabless semiconductor company. It was founded in 1994 with headquarters in San Jose, California. It originally developed the GLINT and PERMEDIA high-end graphics chip technology, that was used on many of the world's leading computer g ...
.
DFP was superseded by DVI because of a low maximum resolution of 1280 × 1024 (
SXGA
The graphics display resolution is the width and height dimension of an electronic visual display device, measured in pixels. This information is used for electronic devices such as a computer monitor. Certain combinations of width and height ar ...
), whereas DVI supports much higher resolutions.
DFP monitors can generally be used with a DVI graphics card with a passive adaptor.
Image:DFP_connector.jpg, male DFP connector
Image:DFP_graphic_card_cutted.jpg, female DFP connector
Image:Adapter_DVI_DFP.jpg, DVI-DFP adaptor
References
External links
DFP diagram and description of pin layout
Digital flat panel
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